'Real heavy on your brain': The disability among prisoners misunderstood as 'troublemaking'

By Miki Perkins
Updated August 23 2017 - 5:38pm, first published 5:30pm
The Age, News. Mark Cooper  has an Acquired Brain Injury and has been in and out of correctional facilities for story by Mikki Perkins.Pic Simon Schluter 23 August 2017.
The Age, News. Mark Cooper has an Acquired Brain Injury and has been in and out of correctional facilities for story by Mikki Perkins.Pic Simon Schluter 23 August 2017.
The Age, News. Mark Cooper  has an Acquired Brain Injury and has been in and out of correctional facilities for story by Mikki Perkins.Pic Simon Schluter 23 August 2017.
The Age, News. Mark Cooper has an Acquired Brain Injury and has been in and out of correctional facilities for story by Mikki Perkins.Pic Simon Schluter 23 August 2017.

His short-term memory is shot, so Mark Cooper leaves notes and posters around his home to remind him of medical appointments.

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